Archives for August 2006
Open-in-tab support for Vim 7.0 Windows
24 August 2006 | Jargon | No Responses
Vim 7.0 contains a beautiful new feature to let users open new files in tabs. Unfortunately, the Vim shell extension shipped with 7.0 windows puts in absolutely no effort to make this work.
I read all the articles on Vim.org and while hundreds of people asked for a solution to this, no one has found one. The closest anyone has come is a hack to allow opening a group of files to open into tabs in one Vim instance.
Tonight I found the answer.
Vim Love
22 August 2006 | Jargon | 2 Responses
I decided to post my .gvimrc for any other Vim users. Maybe it will give you some ideas for your own. This .gvimrc is the product of my using Vim as my primary text editor the last 5 years.
Considering a job change?
22 August 2006 | Pirates | 1 Response
According to the ICC Commercial Crime Services reports in 2004 and 2005, there are openings for piracy in many parts of the world.
Maps on the site indicate a deficiency of pirate activity in all areas of North America. Piracy in the Mediterranean sea, especially in areas around Tripoli, is also shockingly low. There are also openings in South Africa and in the East China Sea.
Hare Krishnas have found ICQ
5 August 2006 | Random | No Responses
So today I logged into ICQ for the first time in a while and got the following message:
Gouranga (202766563): Derrick
Call out Gouranga Be Happy…
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga
That which brings the highest happiness!
It’s nice to see Hare Krishnas are branching out and not limiting themselves to airports anymore. Unfortunately, they are 9 years late–no one uses ICQ anymore.
Harvesting the homeless
1 August 2006 | Rants | 3 Responses
According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), there are around 92,500 people waiting for an organ in the United States as of 11:40 p.m. August 1. However, this list has a problem: it is not compiled by UNOS, only maintained by it. The list is actually compiled by 256 different centers around the country who decide who lives and who dies based on their “own criteria,” that being how much money you have.
According to an ABC News story, as many as 25 percent of organ donations come from people with no insurance who, though they donate, will never be able to receive an organ transplant since hospitals will foot the bill for neither surgery no recovery.
The ABC News report quoted Laura Siminoff, a bioethicist, as saying.
From a very clinical point of view, you can ask what is the difference if the donor is dead? Except as a society we don’t view dead people as garbage.
Realistically speaking, we all know anyone without money to be in the overlords club—the rich WASPs who control America with an iron fist and make sure there’s plenty of Sesame Street and pornography to keep the rest of the country distracted—gets fucked by the system. That’s the way we decided the United States could best serve the interests of its people, so I don’t think anyone would argue against the right of the rich to harvest organs from the poor.
But Siminoff brings up an interesting point. The poor have families. Except for the rich, I don’t think anyone views the poor as garbage. Hell, every middle class family began as a poor family scraping and killing itself to in some way emulate the rich. We can relate to the poor, and the idea of them being used as parts in a system reminiscent of Soylent Green is probably upsetting.
The solution is clearly to use people who are considered garbage. In America, there are probably at least a million of these people, more than enough to satisfy UNOS’s waiting list, and probably enough to start exporting organs to other countries and maybe drag America’s economy back out of the red.
I’m talking about the homeless.
An explanation of the last post
1 August 2006 | Random | No Responses
If you are someone who believes that some things are too terrible to make a joke about, please add “127.0.0.1 cinnamonpirate.com” to your HOSTS file and never come here again.
In an effort to generate new material and combat my dry spell of worthwhile topics, I’ve written a topic generator. Every day, two terrible things guaranteed to offend people of all races, creeds, genders, or any other imaginary lines humans have created to segregate themselves are randomly selected from a list and sent to my e-mail address. An example combination would be “homeless people” and “bukkake.” Another good one would be “crack babies” and “necrophilia.” “Serial killers” and “Republicans.”
You get the idea.
I’m certain this wonderful new use of my creative energies is making my mother proud.